Archive for the ‘TANSTAAFL’ Category
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK) came up on my radar from a Yahoo! News Alert Digest article I receive on Carl Icahn. Regardless of what one thinks of Icahn, he is good at sniffing out a way to profit that others don’t easily see.
Looking up CHK I see that they have a good PEG ratio of .9, and another article on Motley Fool about bad energy investments…with Chesapeake as the counter example.
They are at a low price point now, but the chart mechanically looks to be heading further down. I’m going to bet that it goes down a bit further, and also bet on Icahn being his usual right (if not always for the right reason).
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK)
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Tags: Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK)
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Some of my best returns have come from stocks I run across while checking up on other stocks I’m thinking of dumping. Case in point today is I ran across Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. (SNTA) today in a Motley Fool article that also mentioned the stock I was researching (and no decision on that one, yet, so not mentioning it here). A low-price bio tech that is profitable and not buried in debt. Go figure. Volatile price, though, so I’m going to set a limit buy on a drop and hope it doesn’t drop much further, bounces back up, and skim so “free” stock out of the ride.
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Tags: Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. (SNTA)
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
I have an eye on Jet Blue (JBLU) only because it is my favorite airline to fly. Of course, I’m still cheap (one of the reason I like flying with them), so I’m hoping for a temporary set back in the stock price to buy.
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Tags: JetBlue Airways Corporation (JBLU)
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
When Motley Fool and TheStreet.com both list the same stocks, I’m not sure whether to be frightened or enthused. Either way, it put LLY back on my watch list.
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Tags: Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY)
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Ripe for a buy, or ready to fall off the map? AEO came up on my radar watching the Yahoo! Finance Losers for bargains, but I didn’t pull the trigger. OTOH, I’ve done well with retail before…but not every time. Anyway, an article at InvestorPlace.com got me to thinking about them again. What do you think? Try that comment box out below and let me know how it works.
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Tags: American Eagle Outfitters Inc. (AEO)
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Too good to be true is always scary. At today’s 21.8% dividend, that is where I see AGNC. But scary is cool and enticing, especially with a Foolish CAP rating of 4 stars. So, I’m going to put an alert at $22 and look again.
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Tags: American Capital Agency Corp. (AGNC)
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Several false alerts from Yahoo! Alerts today. Must have caught that bug from the stock market last week!
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
I have been ignoring every investment newsletter touting China Mobile Limited (CHL) until today, when I read my free copy of Motley Fool’s STOCKS 2010 The Investor’s Guide to the Year Ahead, and recalled that a friend of mine with a heavy AAPL position mentioned that a major contributor to their huge upside this year was sales in China. I generally trust the Fools to find the best in class, so if I’m going to make a play in China mobile telecom, this will be it. Ask Stock Guru today has the conservative buy at 47.79, but with the summer doldrums coming up, I’m looking at 46 for an entry point.
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Tags: China Mobile Limited (CHL), CHL
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
I’m working my way through the stocks discussed in the article Top IPOs of 2009: Five Stocks to Watch. My current focus is LIWA, which seems to have a lot of disclosure for a Chinese stock. I’m looking for it to drop to 8 then pop to 10. The Foolish CAPs have it as a 5 star, so I might get lucky on this one.
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Tags: Lihua International Inc. (LIWA), LIWA
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Ran across KLIC from an Options Zone article. While askStockGuru today calls for a low of 6.83, I’m not willing to jump into this volatility above 4.89.
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Tags: KLIC, Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. (KLIC)
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